Experienced in senior-level operations, production and distribution. Promotes wide range of experience in planning and leading operations in manufacturing environment. Well-versed in contributing to company growth by implementing continuous process improvement, production optimization and high-performance team development. Experienced with union labor and contract negotiations.
1. Comprehensive Production Management (Oct 2004 - Aug 2009, May 2012 - Apr 2015)
- Developed production and operation plans for 27 plants at Gwangyang Steel Works
- Monitored and managed overall production, considering key indicators
(cost, delivery, yield, operation rate, utilization rate, defect rate, etc.).
- Determined mill allocation and production LOT for each product and process.
[Key Projects and Achievements]
- Optimized and standardized automotive steel manufacturing process
: Increased production from 2 to 6 million tons per year.
- Improved chronic process load issues, reducing production lead time
: Improved delivery compliance rate from 70% to 98%.
- Enhanced product comprehensive yield through process-specific defect improvements
: Increased overall yield from 89% to 92%. Raw and Subsidiary Materials Supply and
2. Storage Management (Sep 2009 - Apr 2012)
- Managed supply and inventory, storage yards for coke, quicklime, and scrap.
[Key Projects and Achievements]
- Systematized and standardized inventory transaction management for scrap.
- Planned and executed the establishment of a new eco-friendly scrap yard.
- Reduced substandard scrap intake by enhancing the purchased scrap inspection process
: decreased scrap-related defects from 21 to 5 cases per year.
3. Internal Transportation Management (Jan 2017 - Dec 2017)
- Optimized transportation equipment and routes between yards, plants, and processes
- Identified and mitigated risk factors across transportation routes for various materials.
[Key Projects and Achievements]
- Established the optimal number of operating transportation units between processes
: Achieved 2million dollars savings by retiring 2 outdated transport units
- Reduced loading and unloading lead time for transported materials
: Decreased from 600 to 300 seconds.
4. Production Process and System Improvement (Jan 2018 - Dec 2019)
- Identified and improved bottleneck processes
- Enhanced and maintained ERP and MES systems.
[Key Projects and Achievements]
- Streamlined product packaging methods, resolving packaging bottlenecks
: packaging cost reduced by 5 billion KRW/year
- Led plant system improvement tasks for company-wide MES 3.0 upgrade, including issue
identification, integration, and progress management.
5. Employee Labor Relations and Safety Management Planning (Jan 2020 - Dec 2021)
- Executed special executive-directed tasks related to
- Planned executive-led activities such as meetings, events, and reward programs for
overall labor relations activities
- Developed and implemented on-site safety audit plans.
[Key Projects and Achievements]
- Collected and resolved issues from the labor union
- Supported the establishment of a field-led safety management culture
: Reduced safety incidents in the assigned department from 2 to zero.
6. Product Warehouse Storage & Customer Shipment Management (Jan 2022 - Present)
- Managed the operation and investment of transportation and shipping equipment
(trailers, cranes, unloaders, forklifts, etc.).
- Oversaw product shipments by various means (land, sea, rail), addressed urgent
customer issues, and pursued workforce efficiency through automation of shipping
processes.
[Key Projects and Achievements]
- Implementing remote fault resolution for product warehouse cranes (ongoing, 57 units),
- automating product shipping dock unloaders (15 units, ongoing)
- Improving product shipping dock layout and unloader investment (ongoing),
- Improving high-risk operations during product ship loading (ongoing).